plunder
Significado (Inglés)
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- To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.
- To take (goods) by pillage.
- To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.
- To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
- To take unexpectedly.
Conceptos
Sinónimos
take by force
carrying off
trample down
tread down
commit robbery
cut to ribbons
lay waste to
stolen goods
stolen property
scatter about
spoilation
mess about with
spolitation
depradation
make in confusion
over-run
rasnsacking
raid a village
Frecuencia
Con guión como
plund‧er
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈplʌndə/
Etimología (Inglés)
Recorded since 1632 during the Thirty Years War, native British use since the Cromwellian Civil War. Borrowed from German plündern (“to loot”), from Middle High German, from Middle Low German plunderen. Cognate with Dutch plunderen, West Frisian plonderje, Saterland Frisian plunnerje. Probably denominal from a word for “household goods, clothes, bedding”; compare Middle Dutch plunder, German Plunder (“stuff”), Dutch and West Frisian plunje (“clothes”).
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